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Vol. 25, No. 5: February-March 2021

New Year, Seven New Columns; Focus On Chords

Improve Your Knowledge And Playing With New Perspectives
February-March 2021 ยท January 2021

Welcome to the February mid-winter edition of the Guitar Nine on-line magazine. Picking exercises, chord progressions, and easy guitar solos are just a few of the subjects covered in the first issue of 2021 In total, five guest columnists have submitted seven original articles on a range of musical topics of interest to practicing musicians. In addition to consuming the information presented, please sample some great music released by the over 1400 musicians we've worked with over the past 24 years! Interestingly, we've now published over 220 artist interviews, while over 210 musicians and industry experts have written close to 1100 guest columns for this site since 1996.

In this issue

10 columns
Guest Columnists
Dan Peeke

15 Easy Guitar Solos To Learn

Dan Peeke

Get the most you can out of the rehearsal time you have scheduled.

G9 Focus
Guitar Nine

Guitar Nine Focus: Chords

Guitar Nine

A wealth of information about chords and chord progressions for you to learn and master.

Guest Columnists
Kevin M. Buck

How To Arrange, Play, And Record Classical Music For The Electric Guitar

Kevin M. Buck

Tips on recording some of the greatest classical pieces for electric guitars.

Guest Columnists
James Rosocha

The IIm7b5-V7b9-Im Progression

James Rosocha

Here is a minor cadence used in hundreds of Real Book tunes.

Guest Columnists
Tommaso Zillio

Improving Finger Independence On The Guitar

Tommaso Zillio

Here are three ways to advance and progress in the area of finger independence.

The Power To Release
Dan McAvinchey

Influences: Edward Van Halen

Dan McAvinchey

"Eruption", "Atomic Punk" and a fiery cover of "You Really Got Me" blew us away in 1978.

Guest Columnists
Tommaso Zillio

Is It Important To Know How To Read Music As A Guitar Player?

Tommaso Zillio

Is it something that is necessary for your specific musical path - or not?

Newsletters
Guitar Nine Newsroom

Newsletter February-March 2021

Guitar Nine Newsroom

Guitar Nine's February-March 2021 newsletter.

Guest Columnists
Mike Campese

Picking Exercises To Melodic Phrases

Mike Campese

Examples that will help strengthen your picking, constructed in a more musical fashion.

Guest Columnists
Tommaso Zillio

Too Old To Learn Guitar Or Music Theory?

Tommaso Zillio

How old is too old? The answer may surprise you.

Also carried

First ran elsewhere

The survey that ran with it

30 answers

Which brand of guitar pedal is your favorite?

Boss
27%
Other Not Listed
27%
Electro-Harmonix
10%
Line 6
7%
Dunlop
3%
Eventide
3%
MXR
3%
Keeley
3%
Behringer
3%
Ernie Ball
3%
Fulltone
3%
Catalinbread
3%
Wampler
3%
Walrus Audio
0%
JHS
0%
TC Electronic
0%
Digitech
0%
Analog Man
0%
EarthQuaker Devices
0%
TC-Helicon
0%
Strymon
0%
Pedaltrain
0%
Percentages of 30 answers. All the surveys.
← The one before December-January 2020